Method and system for managing licenses to content

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7818261
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11425335

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Process for enabling a content provider and its users to easily manage licenses for intended uses for selected or provided content. Licensing information for content previously provided to a user or acquired by the content provider, a digital fingerprint, and/or a digital identifier are employed to uniquely identify a particular instance of the selected/provided content and manage licenses to use this content Once the selected content is provided for processing, the invention can notify the user of at least one of four conditions: (1) a user is currently licensed for at least one type of use for the selected content; (2) if a previous license to the selected content is expired, a current license does not include the selected use, or the user doesn't have or has an expired license to use the selected content, and identify steps to obtain a current license for at least one type of use; (3) if a license to use the selected content is not available from the content provider; and (4) identify substantially similar content that is available from the content provider for a license for at least one type of the intended use for one or more of conditions (1), (2), and (3).

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BEN GROUP INC14724 VENTURA BOULEVARD SUITE 1200 SHERMAN OAKS CA 91403

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Aspelund, Erling Seattle, US 1 26
Weiskopf, David N Kirkland, US 2 33

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